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Study tallies library use

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Recently released figures documenting public, academic, and special library use in 1996 – the latest year to be surveyed by Canada’s National Core Library Statistics Program – show that patrons made 30 million inquiries and ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling

Study examines library buying

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A recent study commissioned by the Association of Canadian Publishers to find ways its members can improve sales to libraries concluded there is no way to guarantee that a particular title will have broad library ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Nfld library workers sent packing

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The Newfoundland library community is reacting with dismay to a provincial government “regionalization initiative” that will relocate more than 30 library positions in June.Last summer, the government announced plans to relocate 275 civil service positions ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Library defends free-speech policy

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An intellectual freedom crisis erupted during last month’s Canadian Library Association annual conference.As librarians met inside Victoria’s Conference Centre on June 18 – the second day of the conference – Moe Sihota, MLA for the ... Read More »

April 6, 2004